Mountain observations: Monitoring, data, and information for science, policy, and society
Explore this easy-to-read overview of the current state of multi-disciplinary mountain observations. Discover the different methods used to observe mountain environments, as well as the diversity of knowledge and data sources available to learn from.
Climate Models: What They Show Us and How They Can Be Used in Planning
Explore this guide from the Future Climate For Africa programme which provides a primer on global climate models (GCMs) and how to use them in planning.
How to understand and interpret global climate model results
Guide targeted at decision-makers to enable them to interpret the various plots, graphs and maps that are used to present global climate model projections.
Climate Futures for Tasmania
Photo: Angello Failla
Adaptation contextThe small island state of Tasmania has some of Australia’s most extensive and best-conserved wilderness areas and pristine...
Impact on Pastures Kyrgyzstan
The Kyrgyz government with the support of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has designed a new livestock umbrella programme aiming at helping the country to face current and future problems and constrains in the livestock sector.
Step-by-step guidance to using climate information
8-step guidance on using climate information.
ACCC: Policy-ready projections
This ACCC report looks at how climate models and climate model outputs can be made more useful to planners.
CIP Climate Graph Development
This month marks the launch of the new Climate Information Platform (CIP). In many ways the new platform has been a clean sheet redesign of many aspects of the old portal. One of the key...
ClimateCost- TPBN 1
Zimbabwe climate analysis
Climate feature
Key messages
Source
Past climate variability
High...
Zimbabwe climate analysis
Climate feature
Key messages
Source
Past climate variability
High variability, frequent drought years and flood events
Historical rainfall records (CRU...
Regional climate change messages
This article provides guidance on how to build a message about changes in the regional climate (rather than the global climate).
Climate analysis- Rwanda
Drought Prone areas in Rwanda (Source, NAPA Report, 2006, Data from Meteorological service /MININFRA )
This climate analysis was conducted as part of the DFID-funded ...
Climate analysis - Burundi
Main physical features and flood risk map of Burundi
BackgroundThis climate analysis was conducted as part of the DFID-funded Economics of Climate Change on East...
Climate Analysis- Tanzania
The graphics show observed rainfall (monthly totals) and maximum temperature (monthly mean) for selected stations between 1979 and 2000. The blue envelope represents the...
Introduction to climate modelling
Basically, climate modelling involves converting theories of atmospheric physics, solar radiation, phase state physics, etc. into mathematical formulas that can be solved by a...
Climate change modelling and analysis for Mozambique
This article summarises key points from a report by Mark Tadross, of the Climate Systems Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town, titled Climate Change modelling and analysis for Mozambique...
Climate changes in East Africa
The average global surface temperature has warmed 0.8°C in the past century and 0.6°C in the past three decades (Hansen et al., 2006), in large part because of human activities (IPCC...
Training of Trainers Workshop on Climate Change Science - Summary of Proceedings
ToT Climate science workshop summary
The Climate Change Explorer Tool
This article provides a background to the Climate Information Platform, which replaces the Climate Change Explorer (CCE).
Information for Country Screening
This page provides an overview of available data sources for use in vulnerability and adaptation assessments. Most of these links pertain to information on biophysical hazards and data...
Climate science, projections and interpretation
The Climate Systems Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town are the lead weADAPT organisation working on climate modelling and climate science. CSAG use a process...
Climate model uncertainty
These notes have been collated from presentations given by Bruce Hewitson, Mark Tadross and David Stainforth, some of which can be found at the end of this page, and notes...
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